The mortuary at a busy city hospital has undergone a €200,000 revamp to enhance the dignity for deceased patients and their grieving families.

A BUSY Cork city hospital which will be affected by tight security for the visit is laying on a special shuttle bus to help patients attend clinics.

CHRONIC pain is a major health issue and is placing a “significant economic burden” on the country with up to 36% of adults suffering, a report has said.

YOU’VE heard of the naked chef — now meet the naked gardeners.

ONE of the country’s largest voluntary hospitals is slashing staff allowances and asking workers to take unpaid leave as part of a raft of cost-cutting measures designed to save more than €4 million this year.

A HOSPITAL emergency department which has lain idle for almost two years will finally open in four weeks.

A NURSES’ dispute over a shorter working week will escalate unless the first step towards a resolution is delivered today.

A CORONER highlighted the importance of putting babies to sleep on their backs.

NURSES hit back at the Health Minster Mary Harney yesterday after she accused them of holding the Government to ransom in a staffing row which has seen a €5 million emergency department lie idle for more than a year.

IT’S a long time since I had my appendix removed at the age of nine, but I had prepared myself for a war zone situation when I found that I would be spending a week as an inmate of an Irish hospital.

THE head of the health service is to be quizzed by a powerful Dáil committee tomorrow about why a €5 million A&E unit has lain idle for almost a year.

A CITY hospital rejected claims yesterday that staffing problems are delaying the opening of its new multi-million euro accident and emergency unit.